WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. - Tufts won its first NESCAC Women's Track & Field Championship since 2013, as the Jumbos won four events and pulled away from the pack to capture the program's fifth conference title overall at Lee Track on the campus of Williams College.

Simi Lawal, Arielle Chehile, and Emma Gall were individual NESCAC Champions and the Jumbo 4x100-meter relay also won as Tufts was first in six events overall at the two-day meet, marking the most individual and relay wins by a Tufts team at a NESCAC Championship meet since 2015. Chechile, Gall and the 4x100 relay all broke NESCAC Championship records and the Jumbos collected 13 All-NESCAC honors.
 
Tufts finished with a team score of 152.5 points to win the conference championship ahead of host and runner-up Williams College (135 points), third-place Amherst College (131 points) and Middlebury College in fourth place (124 points).

Overall, nine NESCAC records fell in the 2026 championship, including all three relay marks.

Women's Team Scores - Final
1. Tufts, 152.5 points	2. Williams, 135 points
3. Amherst, 131 points	4. Middlebury, 124 points
5. Bates, 68.5 points	6. Conn. College, 53 points
7. Bowdoin, 48 points	8. Trinity, 41 points
9. Hamilton, 30 points	10. Colby, 22 points
11. Wesleyan, 14 points

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Women's Track & Field All-NESCAC Performers
The top three finishers in each event and the top three relay teams earn All-NESCAC honors
# - NESCAC meet record

EVENT	First Place	Second Place	Third Place
Women's Shot Put	12.74m - Lillian Wurtz, Middlebury	12.35m - Mardy Novak, Bowdoin	12.01m - Julia Tulimieri, Middlebury
Women's Javelin	43.27m - Mardy Novak, Bowdoin	42.42m - Dana Schwartz, Hamilton	41.36m - Jackie Wells, Tufts
Women's Long Jump	5.91m # - Kennedy Kirkland, Bowdoin	5.81m - Heloise Hughes, Amherst	5.67m - Lauren Zipoli, Tufts
Women's Hammer	52.12m - Cecilia LaBarge, Tufts	51.62m - Carli Ciavarelli, Bates	48.30m - Maria Fareti, Williams
Women's Pole Vault	3.87m # - Emma Gall, Tufts	3.75m - Ellie Fitzgerald, Williams	3.60m - Audrey Cheng, Williams
Women's High Jump	1.71m - Lily Haskins-Vaughn, Middlebury	1.62m - Campbell Johnson, Bates	1.58m - Leah Smith, Amherst
Women's Triple Jump	11.87m - Alisandra Lindos, Bates	11.78m - Campbell Johnson, Bates	11.73m - Anastasia Ioppolo, Amherst
Women's Discus	45.55m - Lillian Wurtz, Middlebury	42.63m - Emma Ramsingh, Amherst	40.11m - Margaret Kim, Middlebury
Women's 10,000m	36:15.46 - Elizabeth Donahue, Tufts	36:19.11 - Zoe Margolies, Tufts	36:36.08 - Abby Fernald, Conn. College
Women's 3,000m Steeplechase	10:32.63 - Charlene Peng, Williams	10:35.48 - Kiera Tallas, Conn. College	10:49.00 - Grace Kaelber, Middlebury
Women's 4x100 Relay	:46.51 # - Tufts Zipoli, Moriarty, Chechile, Lawal	:46.80 - Colby Zeller, Ewald, Waheed, Brake-Hoffman	:46.99 - Amherst Hubley, Lash, Jolly, Hughes
Women's 1,500m	4:24.53 # - Kate Tuttle, Williams	4:26.70 - Grace McDonough, Conn. College	4:31.89 - Claire Palmer, Middlebury
Women's 100m Hurdles	:14.59 - Myeh Medina, Amherst	:14.69 - Anastasia Ioppolo, Amherst	:14.74 - Lauren Zipoli, Tufts
Women's 400m	:54.79 # - Bella King-Harvey, Williams	:56.51 - Jenna Najjar, Trinity	:56.70 - Makayla Moriarty, Tufts
Women's 100m	:11.79 - Simisola Lawal, Tufts	:11.87 - Blessing Kieh, Conn. College	12.09 - Arielle Chechile, Tufts
Women's 800m	2:08.20 # - Annika Paluska, Williams	2:10.48 - Alexa Estes, Conn. College	2:10.51 - Piper Lentz, Amherst
Women's 400m Hurdles	1:00.04 # - Arielle Chechile, Tufts	1:00.08 - Myeh Medina, Amherst	1:02.47 - Haley Bilodeau, Trinity
Women's 200m	:24.18 - Blessing Kieh, Conn. College	:24.27 - Simisola Lawal, Tufts	:24.77 - Heloise Hughes, Amherst
Women's 5,000m	16:41.61 - Morgan Eigel, Williams	16:47.80 - Claire Palmer, Middlebury	16:56.16 - Tamar Byl, Williams
Women's 4x400 Relay	3:44.63 # - Williams Donaldson, Sukup, Jensen, King-Harvey	3:45.37 - Colby Hermsdorf, Brake-Hoffman, Doherty, Ewald	3:51.71 - Middlebury Rayment, Elliot, Bulczynski, Pate
Women's 4x800 Relay	9:02.98 # - Williams Tuttle, Yampolsky, Liss-Riordan, Paluska	9:09.87 - Amherst Seeger, McLaughlin, Adhikari, Lentz	9:11.09 - Middlebury VanSchaick, Cestaro, Atwood, Jensen